Clearly 'safe' is an absolute. This is a fix for a known vulnerability. You cannot be safer than safe, but you can be less unsafe than having a known vulnerability;)
Its almost like no one is magically 'exempt' from such issues, fancy that.
Still, at least they turned around a patch reasonably quickly. Pity they didnt do so before it was major media news..
Once upon a time I asked the x264 people if I could ship the x264 installer inside a bundle of software I was selling. note: I didnt ship it, I politely asked if that would be ok.
The answer I got back was, in short 'That makes your whole system GPL, please give us your details so we can pass them to our lawyers' Now, I thought that was a little crazy, so, again, I politely asked why they thought that would apply if I did ship their installer.
'You have linked our code as a core part of your system, therefore you are a derivative system, send us your details immediately!' Again, I asked 'that seems very odd, I certainly wont be using your system at all, however could you please tell me why you think that a piece of software that the end user will install, that is only accessed through windows Directshow standard interfaces would make my software derivative?'
I was told to direct that question to my own lawyers, since 'they do not provide free legal advice', and again asked to provide my details to THEIR lawyers.
Needless to say, I never, ever, EVER used x264, or recommended it to my users. The only reason I was asking to include it was to save them downloading it if they needed to read those particular video formats - and had exactly zero intention of making any changes at all (of course, I was intending to distribute an exact normal distribution)
Sad really, and completely unnecessary.
Funnily enough I heard from others that the x264 people consider providing users with a button that automatically DOWNLOADS the same installer and runs 'no problem', and that they didnt consider x264 libraries in linux distributions being used by a plethora of other software to legally taint those with GPL requirements, but they considered any shipping of an installer on windows as one.. hmmm.
I hope they enjoyed their power trip - but it just wasnt worth the legal battle/risk. I wonder if all the x264 contributors realised their contributions were being used as a political hammer in such a way.
So.. You think funding is the reason the FDA cannot pass these exactly identical compounds (that is what a generic is remember.. And the FDA doesn't do quality control..)?
Perhaps use the nice small country of South Korea for comparison.
Find a single medical procedure that is available in the USA and not in south Korea and is not some archaic leftover the rest of the world has already abandoned.
There are certainly many procedures available there that are next to impossible to obtain in the USA.. And pretty much every procedure is available privately for significantly less cost and at lower failure rate.
it is NOTHING like a GPU. it is an array of DSPs. boring old DSPs.. nothing new here at all. quite a few of them on the same chip, but still, just DSPs. in fact quite standard DSPs. Which is pretty much exactly what you would expect for this application.
Now please stop trying to impress people with 'I've looked over all the information' and go back to your madz gamerzing.
Stop lying, although I know you find that hard. http://www.sarsonline.org/resources-stats/reports-laws-statics
52% of rapists are white, 83.5% of the population is white. Therefore non whites are over 4.5 times as likely to be a rapist. (the normalised numbers are.62 for whites, 2.9 for non whites)
That is on top of the estimates that rape is estimated over 5 TIMES less likely to be reported in non white communities.
None of which is good, but those are the facts. All rape is bad, very very bad. Misusing statistics to focus on the wrong people is just as bad - you are disrespecting the victims by trying to use their suffering for your own political purposes.
You missed the point, this is much more '11 dreams I hope will become true to maximise MY investments'
Or do you think 'an American internet entrepreneur' is doing his best for the health and happiness of others?
btw, several of the items are quite obvious astroturfing.
9, is downright funny, there is, by definition, less than 1 pound of water in 1 pound of beef, unless this guy thinks cattle magically transmute h2o into something else. there is much MUCH more waste of produced food that limitation on production.
5, is quite obviously the dream of someone who sees himself in the 'winning' side of that equation with little care for those who will find themselves on the losing side (which will be many, unfortunately). Pop goes your knowedge-based-economies.
7, is just silly, blockchains dont in any way suddenly revolutionise anything - they are one cute solution to one specific problem.
10, is of no actual value unless the elephant in the corner of medicine is addressed - massive financial graft and inefficiency. Anyone think that lower internal costs will lead to cheaper service? Didnt think so.
4, Mines (the exploding sort) started out as a military technology also;) any link between GPS and Drones via military as a sign of social benifit is... tenuous at best.
But hey, he is just hoping we drink the coolaid and help out his portfolio I am sure. Good luck with that.
I am sure that radio astronomers would agree with you on that one, as well as oppose this 'plan'
After all, while such plasma will help reflect internal signals, it will also help block external ones, including signals to most other satellites - seems like a winner (although the effects are very frequency dependent).
I suspect this is someone in charge of old systems wanting to get more funding for their little fiefdom without looking at the modernisation of communications, where ionosphere bounce is rapidly becoming an outdated method.
That and the fact that suggesting military NOT spend big money on any idea they come up with if bordering on treason these days, right?
Mind you, the HAARP conspiracy crowd will LOVE it, make them even more paranoid;)
Yes, I would say that secure key distribution has a military application - secure communications. Good on them I say, pushing the limits further, real science..
Compare that with the reaction of the DNC to their hacked emails, by creating a board of lawyers and politicos to fix their security problems. I can only assume by pushing for more spying and monitoring laws, less encryption, and backdoors in everything, because that helps, right?
Face it, the Chinese are rapidly become world technology leaders, and denial wont stop it. These days it looks like the Chinese are working hard to become the new Renaissance state, while the west is rushing to emulate the worst of Maoist stats China through totalitarian control and monitoring of their citizens..
Sad really, but inevitable with a western population that has become too focused on maximising their own personal comfort, and running in fear at anything that is unfamiliar or uncomfortable - basically ceding total control to a state that is more than happy to grab it and run. Those in power will be laughing all the way to the collapse, with little thought to what happens after.
But dont worry, just keep supporting your liberal left, or your religious right, and ignore the fact that both sides are playing the same gave of totalitarian control at any cost, while the east gets on with actual production and development.
You damn Americans scare me, are you so retarded that you dont understand that MONEY is not the end purpose of everything?
The point of drug testing people on benefits is not to remove their benefits and therefore save money, it is to identify people who are in a highly undesirable situation, and give them a reason to get out of that - almost always with assistance offered, etc.
BECAUSE HAVING DESTITUTE PEOPLE HOOKED ON DRUGS MAKES THINGS EVEN WORSE FOR EVERYONE
FFS, is that so hard to understand? the money is the least important thing here.
If you are poor AND hooked on drugs, there is NO way out - if you are just poor, there is at least a chance.
But no, its their 'right' to be on drugs I guess? The fact that drugs are a PRIMARY indicator of criminal activity in the poor is some kind of ism I guess and cannot be discussed either?
God damn idiots who spend so much time being 'respectful of anything' they cannot actually help anyone..
Make sure you discuss all contracts, deals, etc over the phone now.
Since, by this logic, you can therefore require the phone company to file papers against the person at the other end, and in fact to cut off their phone service if they repeatedly cause you a problem. Should bring a whole new level of fun to iffy craigslist deals.
Nice! that shouldnt backfire at all... No, really, I am sure.
If you are caught driving around with copyrighted material, your drivers license is revoked? If someone hears copyrighted music playing over a phone call, your phone line is terminated? If a broadcaster accidentally broadcasts some copyrighted material without license, all their views/subscribers the service terminated?
That land of the free must be a wonderful place to live, what with all those 'protections' and all..
Oh, I forgot didnt I, civil violations over the internet are the new terrorism, and must be crushed by the state. Silly me.
At least the general public still get their fair half of copyright, by the timely entry into the public domain of the works that WE, through the tax funded state, have protected for the holders. Oh wait, damn! how did that happen?
'Honest boss, I was sure the computer was secure! How was I to know the high sensitivity microphone pointed at it a few feet away, with a wire running out to the van outside and the stranger asking us to all be very VERY quiet for the next hour was a problem?'
Yes, this 'research' is pure stupidity because the methods are obvious as well as being easily mitigated if you really NEED security.
Although its not quite as stupid as the actually false and incorrect claim of using pixels to an infiltrated monitor was, which was basically all just a scam (there are NOT several x86 cpus in a monitor, the cpu that is sometimes there CANNOT read individual pixels, and you CANNOT infect them without a usb connection to the monitor).
Not to mention the obvious workaround, USE A SSD. sigh.
Because kids around the age of 16 have never before told their parents one thing while doing another?
Did you life a particularly sheltered life? Because I am pretty sure that has been normal for at least several thousand years, and hardly an Online Generation thing.
It is just the ever common push by those in power to extend their power and lead us to totalitarian states. And t is working well - while they can keep peoples minds on the (almost non-existant) left versus right 'battle' we seem to happily ignore this development.
Worked for the Romans, the Nazis, the Stalinists, the Maoists, and its working for plenty more right now.
But dont worry, they wont take away your flavour of the month reality TV, so we are all happy little lemmings, right?
Thats the software using the GPS, not the GS itself. they use a surprisingly small amount of power these days.
The processor loads (and therefore power/heat) come from the software to display the pretty maps that people now expect/demand.
Having said that, unless the watch can operate independant of the phone, this is just stupid, because the phone already has a gps.. so, it is kind of assumed that they will be giving the watch a little more independence.
You completely misunderstand the watch market I am afraid.
Watches that command $25k do so because of what they are - they are a way of demonstrating wealth. Those are decidedly midrange in this market. The people who wear them would not be caught dead wearing any form of smartwatch. Smartwatches are a way of saying 'look how tech I am', which is a very different message. These ( valuable' watches are also, very VERY specifically, timeless. they DONT update the models every year or two, or even every decade or two. A rolex submariner has hardly changed in 60 years.
The problem is, people who care about looking 'tech' or 'smart' if you like, dont generally have nearly so much money to spend on such a look. People start to learn that smartwatches have little utility, so the wearers start looking try-hard, not tech.
Fitness watches are a different market again, they are specifically 'inexpensive', and send the message that you are an outdoors/fitness person, and people will pay a bit for that, but not apple watch prices.
Basically most of the current smartwatches are swing-and-miss, especially for Apple as its target audience just dont gel with the 'I am rich' or 'I am tech', so after the 'its an Apple' honeymoon, its been all downhill.
They will never be the equivalent of a 'jewellery watch', no matter how much the makers would like them to be.
Same for me, it was a fantastically visual way of wanting to learn to program.
Much MUCH more useful than the 'drag some cute shapes' programming my children are now being exposed to..
I have introduced them to the turtle graphics module in python, and there are a bunch of free ebooks in the area for them to work with. they just love it also.
So, Sad news, as the world goes on. I will draw a few algorithmic stars tonight.
Just perhaps, before the GIMP people go trying to entice others, they should clean up their own back yard.
The number of years GIMP has been limping along on minimum life support is embarrassing, for a project that was once highly active and supported. A LOT of that comes down to them being taken over by a small cadre of people at the top with a 'vision' for GIMP, and that vision was basically that it should only work well for them, and who the hell cares about the rest of the users.
The classic example of that was the removal of the ability to save back to the loaded file format. Save *STILL* requires saving to GIMPs own file format, and you can only export to other file formats. After a LOT of user complaints they finally allowed there to actually be a faster hotkey path for export, but refuse to budge on saving. Why? God only knows, they need to be special, it seems.
Windows support is another notable area, where the GIMP 2.9 series was broken for a long LONG time due to a few rather basic screwups, and they really just didnt care because... well, I can only guess users dont matter. They finally got around to fixing it, but it was a long LONG time, for little reason.
Also take for example the newer builds icon sets - changed to new icons that seems to be someones pet project, but make very little visual sense other than confusing long time users, and therefore slowing down workflow significantly. They also seem to enjoy moving areas of the UI for little obvious reason other than change - again messing with users workflows. These things can be put back, but change for change sake is good?
Most of the issue comes down to the fact that too many active contributors got burnt with 'no, your overlords and masters dont want you to do that, go away and redo it the was WE want' thinking, iften with little or no reason or consideration.
So, no, I doubt GEGL is a good idea for anyone else, not because of a technical reason, but because of a much more practical one, GIMP has been a withering and dying project for a few years now, which is a great pity.
Ffs. I hope your related field is not very related. Do you really think that is a valid comparison? Really? Teaching versus dementia avoidance?
Perhaps you think moderate exercise is not good for general health because 10 active minutes a day can't teach you to run a marathon?
And.. I knew the bar to pepper in medical research had got quite low.. But... Gut feeling? That's your standard to rebut ten years of research? You should work in psychology, sociology or economics.. You will fit right in.
Leave the rest of the grown-ups to do some real work.
More to the point, I hope he has called ASUS and told them he is coping an idea they have put out several times over the years, each of which was a sales flop. Mind you, after they tried it is 2012, and 2014, perhaps being 2016 makes it 'new' somehow.
You seem to think the problem with healthcare is that everyone is not 'included'. That is very very wrong, and pretty much what the healthcare industry wants you tho think, congratulations at swallowing the hook, line, and sinker.
The problem with healthcare is that an essential service, and one which is NOT optional for people, is run at a massive private PROFIT for the incumbents. They have, for a long time, worked with the government to massively regulate out any form of competition, and are currently working to regulate in all users to maximise profits.
The WHOLE reason Us healthcare (and many others) is so catastrophically overprices and inefficient is that it is run PURELY for profit, and regulated for protection of that profit. Whoever people have little choice about using healthcare - your other choice is being sick or death..
People think regulations are used to control the providers, however it is almost exactly the opposite - regulations exist to stop competition from new providers, and to make sure only the massive incumbents are allowed, and hence there is no real competition.
Compare the costs of healthcare to unregulated services available in Asia, which often provide better service, with the same or more advanced capabilities, BETTER patient outcome records, and at a much MUCH lower price... Good examples are South Korea and Thailand private medical services.
Your governments and your Health companies (providers, insurers, and overseers) and using your health to empty your wallets, and letting the people without enough cash simply suffer, as a scare tactic so they can squeeze the rest harder. Land of the free! ra ra!
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I think you mean it will be less unsafe.
Clearly 'safe' is an absolute. This is a fix for a known vulnerability. ;)
You cannot be safer than safe, but you can be less unsafe than having a known vulnerability
Its almost like no one is magically 'exempt' from such issues, fancy that.
Still, at least they turned around a patch reasonably quickly. Pity they didnt do so before it was
major media news..
Once upon a time I asked the x264 people if I could ship the x264 installer inside a bundle of software I was selling.
note: I didnt ship it, I politely asked if that would be ok.
The answer I got back was, in short 'That makes your whole system GPL, please give us your details so we can pass them to our lawyers'
Now, I thought that was a little crazy, so, again, I politely asked why they thought that would apply if I did ship their installer.
'You have linked our code as a core part of your system, therefore you are a derivative system, send us your details immediately!'
Again, I asked 'that seems very odd, I certainly wont be using your system at all, however could you please tell me why you think that a piece
of software that the end user will install, that is only accessed through windows Directshow standard interfaces would make my software derivative?'
I was told to direct that question to my own lawyers, since 'they do not provide free legal advice', and again asked to provide my details to THEIR lawyers.
Needless to say, I never, ever, EVER used x264, or recommended it to my users.
The only reason I was asking to include it was to save them downloading it if they needed to read those particular video formats - and had exactly
zero intention of making any changes at all (of course, I was intending to distribute an exact normal distribution)
Sad really, and completely unnecessary.
Funnily enough I heard from others that the x264 people consider providing users with a button that automatically DOWNLOADS the same installer and runs
'no problem', and that they didnt consider x264 libraries in linux distributions being used by a plethora of other software to legally taint those with GPL
requirements, but they considered any shipping of an installer on windows as one.. hmmm.
I hope they enjoyed their power trip - but it just wasnt worth the legal battle/risk. I wonder if all the x264 contributors realised their contributions
were being used as a political hammer in such a way.
So.. You think funding is the reason the FDA cannot pass these exactly identical compounds (that is what a generic is remember.. And the FDA doesn't do quality control..)?
How cute.
You think so?
Name one. Just one.
Perhaps use the nice small country of South Korea for comparison.
Find a single medical procedure that is available in the USA and not in south Korea and is not some archaic leftover the rest of the world has already abandoned.
There are certainly many procedures available there that are next to impossible to obtain in the USA.. And pretty much every procedure is available privately for significantly less cost and at lower failure rate.
FFS, god damn kids.
it is NOTHING like a GPU.
it is an array of DSPs. boring old DSPs.. nothing new here at all.
quite a few of them on the same chip, but still, just DSPs. in fact quite standard DSPs.
Which is pretty much exactly what you would expect for this application.
Now please stop trying to impress people with 'I've looked over all the information' and go back to your madz gamerzing.
Stop lying, although I know you find that hard.
http://www.sarsonline.org/resources-stats/reports-laws-statics
52% of rapists are white, 83.5% of the population is white. .62 for whites, 2.9 for non whites)
Therefore non whites are over 4.5 times as likely to be a rapist.
(the normalised numbers are
That is on top of the estimates that rape is estimated over 5 TIMES less likely to be reported in non white communities.
None of which is good, but those are the facts.
All rape is bad, very very bad. Misusing statistics to focus on the wrong people is just as bad - you are disrespecting
the victims by trying to use their suffering for your own political purposes.
You missed the point, this is much more '11 dreams I hope will become true to maximise MY investments'
Or do you think 'an American internet entrepreneur' is doing his best for the health and happiness of others?
btw, several of the items are quite obvious astroturfing.
9, is downright funny, there is, by definition, less than 1 pound of water in 1 pound of beef, unless this guy thinks
cattle magically transmute h2o into something else. there is much MUCH more waste of produced food that limitation
on production.
5, is quite obviously the dream of someone who sees himself in the 'winning' side of that equation with little care for those
who will find themselves on the losing side (which will be many, unfortunately). Pop goes your knowedge-based-economies.
7, is just silly, blockchains dont in any way suddenly revolutionise anything - they are one cute solution to one specific problem.
10, is of no actual value unless the elephant in the corner of medicine is addressed - massive financial graft and inefficiency. Anyone
think that lower internal costs will lead to cheaper service? Didnt think so.
4, Mines (the exploding sort) started out as a military technology also ;) any link between GPS and Drones via military as a sign of social benifit is... tenuous at best.
But hey, he is just hoping we drink the coolaid and help out his portfolio I am sure. Good luck with that.
We get it, You're ugly, That doesnt mean the rest of us need overpriced junk that will get us laid. ;)
I am sure that radio astronomers would agree with you on that one, as well as oppose this 'plan'
After all, while such plasma will help reflect internal signals, it will also help block external ones,
including signals to most other satellites - seems like a winner (although the effects are very
frequency dependent).
I suspect this is someone in charge of old systems wanting to get more funding for their little
fiefdom without looking at the modernisation of communications, where ionosphere bounce is
rapidly becoming an outdated method.
That and the fact that suggesting military NOT spend big money on any idea they come up with
if bordering on treason these days, right?
Mind you, the HAARP conspiracy crowd will LOVE it, make them even more paranoid ;)
Yes, I would say that secure key distribution has a military application - secure communications.
Good on them I say, pushing the limits further, real science..
Compare that with the reaction of the DNC to their hacked emails, by creating a board of lawyers
and politicos to fix their security problems. I can only assume by pushing for more spying and
monitoring laws, less encryption, and backdoors in everything, because that helps, right?
Face it, the Chinese are rapidly become world technology leaders, and denial wont stop it.
These days it looks like the Chinese are working hard to become the new Renaissance state, while
the west is rushing to emulate the worst of Maoist stats China through totalitarian control and monitoring
of their citizens..
Sad really, but inevitable with a western population that has become too focused on maximising their own
personal comfort, and running in fear at anything that is unfamiliar or uncomfortable - basically ceding total
control to a state that is more than happy to grab it and run. Those in power will be laughing all the way
to the collapse, with little thought to what happens after.
But dont worry, just keep supporting your liberal left, or your religious right, and ignore the fact that both
sides are playing the same gave of totalitarian control at any cost, while the east gets on with actual
production and development.
You damn Americans scare me, are you so retarded that you dont understand that MONEY is not the end purpose of everything?
The point of drug testing people on benefits is not to remove their benefits and therefore save money, it is to identify people who are
in a highly undesirable situation, and give them a reason to get out of that - almost always with assistance offered, etc.
BECAUSE HAVING DESTITUTE PEOPLE HOOKED ON DRUGS MAKES THINGS EVEN WORSE FOR EVERYONE
FFS, is that so hard to understand? the money is the least important thing here.
If you are poor AND hooked on drugs, there is NO way out - if you are just poor, there is at least a chance.
But no, its their 'right' to be on drugs I guess? The fact that drugs are a PRIMARY indicator of criminal activity in the poor is some kind of ism
I guess and cannot be discussed either?
God damn idiots who spend so much time being 'respectful of anything' they cannot actually help anyone..
Make sure you discuss all contracts, deals, etc over the phone now.
Since, by this logic, you can therefore require the phone company to file papers against the person at
the other end, and in fact to cut off their phone service if they repeatedly cause you a problem.
Should bring a whole new level of fun to iffy craigslist deals.
Nice! that shouldnt backfire at all... No, really, I am sure.
So, I now assume that:
If you are caught driving around with copyrighted material, your drivers license is revoked?
If someone hears copyrighted music playing over a phone call, your phone line is terminated?
If a broadcaster accidentally broadcasts some copyrighted material without license, all their views/subscribers the service terminated?
That land of the free must be a wonderful place to live, what with all those 'protections' and all..
Oh, I forgot didnt I, civil violations over the internet are the new terrorism, and must be crushed by the state. Silly me.
At least the general public still get their fair half of copyright, by the timely entry into the public domain of the works that WE, through the tax
funded state, have protected for the holders. Oh wait, damn! how did that happen?
'Honest boss, I was sure the computer was secure! How was I to know the high sensitivity microphone pointed at it a few feet away, with a wire running out to the van outside and the stranger asking us to all be very VERY quiet for the next hour was a problem?'
Yes, this 'research' is pure stupidity because the methods are obvious as well as being easily mitigated if you really NEED security.
Although its not quite as stupid as the actually false and incorrect claim of using pixels to an infiltrated monitor was, which was basically all just a scam (there are NOT several x86 cpus in a monitor, the cpu that is sometimes there CANNOT read individual pixels, and you CANNOT infect them without a usb connection to the monitor).
Not to mention the obvious workaround, USE A SSD. sigh.
Because kids around the age of 16 have never before told their parents one thing while doing another?
Did you life a particularly sheltered life? Because I am pretty sure that has been normal for at least several thousand years, and hardly an Online Generation thing.
It is just the ever common push by those in power to extend their power and lead us to totalitarian states.
And t is working well - while they can keep peoples minds on the (almost non-existant) left versus right 'battle' we seem to happily ignore this development.
Worked for the Romans, the Nazis, the Stalinists, the Maoists, and its working for plenty more right now.
But dont worry, they wont take away your flavour of the month reality TV, so we are all happy little lemmings, right?
Thats the software using the GPS, not the GS itself. they use a surprisingly small amount of power these days.
The processor loads (and therefore power/heat) come from the software to display the pretty maps that people now expect/demand.
Having said that, unless the watch can operate independant of the phone, this is just stupid, because the phone already has a gps..
so, it is kind of assumed that they will be giving the watch a little more independence.
You completely misunderstand the watch market I am afraid.
Watches that command $25k do so because of what they are - they are a way of demonstrating wealth. Those are decidedly midrange in this market.
The people who wear them would not be caught dead wearing any form of smartwatch. Smartwatches are a way of saying 'look how tech I am', which is a very different message.
These (
valuable' watches are also, very VERY specifically, timeless. they DONT update the models every year or two, or even every decade or two. A rolex submariner has hardly changed in 60 years.
The problem is, people who care about looking 'tech' or 'smart' if you like, dont generally have nearly so much money to spend on such a look. People start to learn that smartwatches have little utility, so the wearers start looking try-hard, not tech.
Fitness watches are a different market again, they are specifically 'inexpensive', and send the message that you are an outdoors/fitness person, and people will pay a bit for that, but not apple watch prices.
Basically most of the current smartwatches are swing-and-miss, especially for Apple as its target audience just dont gel with the 'I am rich' or 'I am tech', so after the 'its an Apple' honeymoon, its been all downhill.
They will never be the equivalent of a 'jewellery watch', no matter how much the makers would like them to be.
My god were you actually drunk when you wrote that.. Or just that stupid? Quite impressive really.
Anyway.. Just dropped by to point out.. Rocket lab USA is actually a New Zealand company using a launch system developed in New Zealand.
It's not just hobbits down there..
Same for me, it was a fantastically visual way of wanting to learn to program.
Much MUCH more useful than the 'drag some cute shapes' programming my children are now being exposed to..
I have introduced them to the turtle graphics module in python, and there are a bunch of free ebooks in the area
for them to work with. they just love it also.
So, Sad news, as the world goes on.
I will draw a few algorithmic stars tonight.
Just perhaps, before the GIMP people go trying to entice others, they should clean up their own back yard.
The number of years GIMP has been limping along on minimum life support is embarrassing, for a project that was once highly active and supported.
A LOT of that comes down to them being taken over by a small cadre of people at the top with a 'vision' for GIMP, and that vision was basically that it should only work well for them, and who the hell cares about the rest of the users.
The classic example of that was the removal of the ability to save back to the loaded file format. Save *STILL* requires saving to GIMPs own file format, and you can only export to other file formats. After a LOT of user complaints they finally allowed there to actually be a faster hotkey path for export, but refuse to budge on saving. Why? God only knows, they need to be special, it seems.
Windows support is another notable area, where the GIMP 2.9 series was broken for a long LONG time due to a few rather basic screwups, and they really just didnt care because... well, I can only guess users dont matter. They finally got around to fixing it, but it was a long LONG time, for little reason.
Also take for example the newer builds icon sets - changed to new icons that seems to be someones pet project, but make very little visual sense other than confusing long time users, and therefore slowing down workflow significantly. They also seem to enjoy moving areas of the UI for little obvious reason other than change - again messing with users workflows. These things can be put back, but change for change sake is good?
Most of the issue comes down to the fact that too many active contributors got burnt with 'no, your overlords and masters dont want you to do that, go away and redo it the was WE want' thinking, iften with little or no reason or consideration.
So, no, I doubt GEGL is a good idea for anyone else, not because of a technical reason, but because of a much more practical one, GIMP has been a withering and dying project for a few years now, which is a great pity.
Lego sell over 200 million lego *sets* a year, lego has been very popular for a long time, and is not really consumable.
But, of course this is complete bs, usual Apple marketing stuff. If they would stick to product development it would be a good idea.
Ffs. I hope your related field is not very related.
Do you really think that is a valid comparison? Really? Teaching versus dementia avoidance?
Perhaps you think moderate exercise is not good for general health because 10 active minutes a day can't teach you to run a marathon?
And.. I knew the bar to pepper in medical research had got quite low.. But... Gut feeling? That's your standard to rebut ten years of research? You should work in psychology, sociology or economics.. You will fit right in.
Leave the rest of the grown-ups to do some real work.
More to the point, I hope he has called ASUS and told them he is coping an idea they have put out several times over the years, each of which was a sales flop.
Mind you, after they tried it is 2012, and 2014, perhaps being 2016 makes it 'new' somehow.
2012, Asus padfone
2014, Asus transformer book
http://www.wired.com/2012/02/meet-the-asus-padfone-the-phone-thats-a-tablet-thats-a-notebook/
https://www.engadget.com/2014/06/02/asus-transformer-book-v-hands-on-video/
but yeah, go crowdfunding!
No, sorry, you pretty much have it 100% wrong.
You seem to think the problem with healthcare is that everyone is not 'included'. That is very very wrong, and pretty much what the healthcare industry wants you tho think, congratulations at swallowing the hook, line, and sinker.
The problem with healthcare is that an essential service, and one which is NOT optional for people, is run at a massive private PROFIT for the incumbents.
They have, for a long time, worked with the government to massively regulate out any form of competition, and are currently working to regulate in all users to maximise profits.
The WHOLE reason Us healthcare (and many others) is so catastrophically overprices and inefficient is that it is run PURELY for profit, and regulated for protection of that profit. Whoever people have little choice about using healthcare - your other choice is being sick or death..
People think regulations are used to control the providers, however it is almost exactly the opposite - regulations exist to stop competition from new providers, and to make sure only the massive incumbents are allowed, and hence there is no real competition.
Compare the costs of healthcare to unregulated services available in Asia, which often provide better service, with the same or more advanced capabilities, BETTER patient outcome records, and at a much MUCH lower price... Good examples are South Korea and Thailand private medical services.
Your governments and your Health companies (providers, insurers, and overseers) and using your health to empty your wallets, and letting the people without enough cash simply suffer, as a scare tactic so they can squeeze the rest harder. Land of the free! ra ra!